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StarCraft II (2010)

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Let's have a look at a number of units and buildings in the StarCraft Battle.net Beta (version 12.47.97)! Dated 4 months before the retail release, it contains unused and unfinished units that you wouldn't normally see if you were just testing the multiplayer!

Although the campaign was not included with the Battle.net Beta, the unfinished state of campaign-specific units proves that the campaign was still work in progress 4 months before release. In addition to this, a number of unused Independent units that would only have placeholder graphics in retail StarCraft have their intended sprites in this Beta!

Extra notes:
I placed the nuke out of curiosity, it is used and functional.
Video pacing might be a bit fast for subtitles, I apologize for that.
It is possible some of these units might remain in retail (Non-Broodwar) StarCraft, I do not have a copy of that at hand to cross-check
Used PVPGN v1.8 to emulate Battle.net. For an unknown reason there is an input delay. The Beta does not seem to work with new versions of PVPGN.
A number of units I tested crash the game on map load or on unit selection so I excluded those.

Shout-outs to rpgkdh for writing a lot of info about the Battle.net Beta: https://m.cafe.daum.net/rpgguild/Da9P?boardType= (in Korean)
Info about playing the Beta with http://avantageous.com/SCBeta.htm
Modified map used for this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1awhcSYrhrU1PyAk6Tt9-xHrlQRnNVPUz/view?usp=sharing (please excuse the size of the scm, that comes from the MPQ editor i used not properly clearing the MPQ when I replace the scenario.chk)
Script I created to modify the scm, because they cannot be edited by regular staredit/scmdraft: https://gist.github.com/RenolY2/e4b7720d72b35725b5be34f0fd405978

Check out this video by Bits und Bolts for a more gameplay-focused view of the Battle.net Beta:    • StarCraft Beta (1997): Late developme...   (Fun fact: I was in the middle of investigating the Beta when that video was released, such a coincidence!)

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